FORT WALTON BEACH Three teens were caught in the act of burglarizing a car off Racetrack Road early Thursday morning and taken into custody after a brief foot chase, according to a news release from the Okaloosa County Sheriff s Office.
The suspects, two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old from the Fort Walton Beach area, are each charged with car burglary, petty theft, resisting an officer without violence and loitering or prowling.
A witness called the Sheriff s Office after spotting the teens using flashlights to look into cars in the parking lot of the Chez Elan Apartment Homes complex at 317 Racetrack Road at 2:11 a.m.